118 Pubs and Bars found in or around Aldwych Theatre London

The worst time to visit this pub is at 6:30 on Friday night in summer. The Marquess of Anglesey will be absolutely packed with tourists, office workers celebrating the end of another week and people on their way out for the...

A cosy little pub, with decent beer, across the road from the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. This does affect the place, as you get theatre patrons (and musicians) in before the show and at the interval, so be prepared for sudden...

The Coach and Horses is a fine traditional pub, and has been for a number of years, a cut above most of the tourist-oriented offerings in these parts. There are a couple of ales on the hand pumps and, as there's an Irish theme...

Belushis, for all its sins, often seems rather like a less trashy Walkabout. While that may not be high praise by any means, it is a perfectly acceptable destination in its own right. By virtue of its location, it aims squarely...

This is one of the better Covent Garden pubs, it bears up to the strain of office worker and tourist crowds quite well. A recent lick of paint has brightened the place up, but not affected it in any other way. It's not worth...

A by-the-book bare boards pub that endeavours to pull in as many punters as possible. It does its best to tap into the crowds off to the Lyceum, which may explain why there are more flavoured coffees on offer than lagers and...

It's all about the cocktails at B@1 (Be At One for those who don't like txt spk), with around 170 crammed onto the menu we were handed upon reaching the bar at the Covent Garden branch of this mini-chain. With a happy hour...

We haven't been in this one for a while and went in with the expectation of the usual O'Neill's experience and our expectations weren't exactly shaken. But it's doing a lot of things right and seems to attract a mix of local...

The Lyceum is a decent enough pub, especially given its touristy location, with the usual cheap-but-decent Sam Smith's drink selections on offer - so expect students from nearby King's College to feature amongst your fellow...

Situated in the heart of London's legal world and a stone's throw away from the London School of Economics, Ye Olde White Horse used to be famous for the 'no students' sign that limited its clientele down to a few punters....

We've known the Punch and Judy for a long, long time and for most of that time we've considered it a pretty dire place, best avoided. But it seems things have moved on and it's not as quite as awful as it once was. It's not as...

Anyone familiar with the Belgo concept will find few surprises here. As with the other bars in the chain, a vast array of beers can be found: white beers, dark beers, Trappist ales and the fashionable fruit beers are all in...

Lurking just off the Strand and just out of sight of most tourists is the Savoy Tup. It's typical of the Massive chain, with a few decent beers on the hand pumps, a modest wine list and the usual range of spirits. But if you're...

On the door step of the LSE it may be, but this a step above your average student pub drinking haunt. The Victorian exterior and interior is fairly well preserved and inside you'll find a pretty good array of beers and a...

The overuse of exclamation marks is a common failing in modern English usage and there should be no exceptions when it comes to naming a bar. Unwarranted over-enthusiasm aside, this is an odd little place tucked in between the...

A recent tidy up hasn't hurt this big old pub with the Edwardian interior. The beer selection lives up to Nicholson's usual standards and being able to try one you've not heard of before you buy always wins points in our book....

Should you need a meeting up point close to Covent Garden tube, then this pub's as good as any other. It offers a good selection of real ales and also traditional pub grub at decent prices. Just like the other Nicholson's...

Big pub, stripped floor, wooden furniture: pretty standard stuff really. This is one of the old T&J Bernard pubs which didn't quite relaunch itself in the olde worlde style of others in the chain and consequently it's not...

Rather larger than it looks from the outside, this one's had a bit of a makeover and gone upmarket. It doesn't have quite the range of drink it used to have - John Smith's or Guinness for the beer drinkers - and the menu's gone...